Global Pulse

Groundtruth and the Pulse blog are undertaking a fourth year of global health reporting in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation. In 2014, Pulse will continue to provide a steady flow of reporting and information on challenging global health issues in every corner of the world. We will build on our previous projects — Step by Step, AIDS: A Turning Pointand Healing the World — and continue to dedicate our efforts to report on health policies set in Washington and how those policies play out in the world.

Commentary: With Ebola hysteria fading in the US, we now risk losing sight of a critical larger issue — the need to build strong health care systems in the poorest parts of Africa. World leaders would do well to take their cues from the PEPFAR program.

MAMA, a public-private partnership led by Johnson & Johnson and USAID, aims to inform pregnant women and new mothers via text messages. Despite its good intentions, the program is still proving itself.